Hindrances to Internal Creative Thinking and Thinking Styles of Malaysian Teacher Trainees in the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute

摘要

The aim of this study is to identify hindrances to internal creative thinking and thinking styles of a group of Malaysian teacher trainees from the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute (N = 232). Three psychological tests were used administrated to the subjects. The result indicates that the ability to think creatively for the majority of subjects (87.50%) is hindered seriously by one of the hindrances to internal creative thinking, that is, stimulus fixity. The finding implies that lecturers of this group of teacher trainees should guide them to overcome this internal barrier before trying to encourage them to think creatively.